Improvement in washing-machines



P. L. WEST. WASHING MACHINES.

No. 194,750. Patented Aug. 28,1877.

WITNESSES M ATTORNEYS N. FETERS, PHOTO LTHOGRAPH UNITED STATES PATENTOrr-Ion.

PHILIP L. wns'r, OF

TO W. F. CAIN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 194,750; dated August28, 1877; application filed April 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LPHILIP L. WEST, of Lyndon,in the county of Osage, andin the State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Washing-Machines; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and

. to the letters of reference marked thereon,

making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a washingmachine, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describebottom of the box, and. the two boards thus forming a bottom composed oftwo inclined surfaces, standing at or nearly at right angles with eachother.

The lower portions of the inclined boards 0 O are provided with numerousperforations, a a, and the clothes to be washed are placed on theseinclined boards, where they are acted upon by reciprocating heatersoperating alternately up and down, one on each board, the perforations ain the inclined boards allowing free circulation of the water.

Each heater is composed of a slotted or perforated board, D, of aboutthe same length as the width of the inclined boards 0, and provided withend pieces D which are connected with a cleat, D.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal.

The heaters are further tral arms E E, which are, by joints, connectedto the ends of a bent lever or walking-beam, G, attached in the centerto a rocking bar, I This bar has its hearings in standards H H, attachedto and projecting upward from the center of the sides of the box A.

To one of the journals of the bar I, outside of the standard, isattached an arm, J, or the journal may form said arm, which extendsdownwardly, and its lower end, by a pitman, L, connected with acrank-shaft, b, having its hearings in standards or a frame, K, attachedto the side of the box near one end. On this shaft is secured a fly orbalance wheel, P, provided with a crank for rotating the same.

By rotating the wheel]? the pitman L gives to the bar I a rocking oroscillating motion, which, by the lover or walking-beam G, imparts anupand-down reciprocating motion to the heaters D on the inclined boards0 0, whereby the clothes are pressed or squeezed alternately fromopposite sides, or rather from sides at right angles to each other. Asone heater goes down on the clothes the other ascends or recedes fromthem, and therefore the clothes are turned over, was to present a newsurface to the action of the heaters as they descend again.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a washing-machine, thecombination of the inclined perforated boards G (3, arranged in the boxA, as described, and the slotted or perforated heaters D D, operatingalternately up and down on said hoards, substantially as herein setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 21st day of March, 1877.

FRANK GAL'I, R. H. WYMER.

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